Fòs Feminista
For Emergency Relief In Haiti
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded1/22/2010
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Foundation approved $500,000 in emergency response funds to the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region (New York, NY) for relief in Haiti. The effects of the earthquake hitting Haiti have been devastating, leaving one-third of the country's nine million inhabitants in urgent need of food, water, and medical care. In situations of disaster, documentation indicates that women and girls will be hit especially hard. There is an increased risk of sexual violence, sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancies, and unsafe abortion. The Federation's long-time local partner in Haiti, PROFAMIL, has suffered the destruction of two of its clinics. In partnership with other organizations, the Federation will offer immediate primary health care and sexual and reproductive health services through mobile health units in the cities of Port-au-Prince and Jacmel and rebuild the organization's capacity (New, $500,000/1; $250,000 from Special Projects, $250,000 from Population; 20% of project budget)
The Population Program's overall goal is to protect and educate women and girls to provide them choices and safety. In situations of disaster, documentation indicates that women and girls will be hit especially hard. There is an increased risk of sexual violence, sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancies, and unsafe abortion.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
fosfeminista.org
Address
125 Maiden Lane, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10038, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support to strengthen partnerships with feminist and SRHRJ organizations in Africa
This grant will support Fòs Feminista, an international alliance working to expand sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ) for all women, girls, and gender-diverse people in the Global South. Through multiyear core funding, strategic accompaniment, and collaboration with African-led feminist networks, Fòs Feminista and its partners aim to advance SRHRJ by ensuring that the African regional ecosystem is well-resourced, well-connected, and well-coordinated. During the grant period, the alliance will strengthen SRHRJ organizing in Africa and build transnational and cross-regional bridges. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support to strengthen partnerships with feminist and SRHRJ organizations in Africa
This grant will support Fòs Feminista, a global alliance working to ensure that all women, girls, and gender-diverse people in the Global South have the resources, power, and safety to exercise their sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ) and to fulfill their life projects. Through flexible multiyear funding, co-created advocacy strategies, and South-South learning exchanges, Fòs Feminista and partners apply an intersectional feminist lens to strengthen African SRHRJ ecosystems. During the grant period, Fòs Feminista aims to deepen partnerships with feminist and SRHRJ organizations in Africa. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for a project to assess budget transparency for sexual and reproductive health and rights
The International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) and its Member Associations have built a network of trusted institutions that provide high quality services to millions of people across Latin America and the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on poor and underserved populations. Funds will enable IPPF/WHR to advance government accountability for budget dedicate to achieving MDG 5b* in Latin America within the following five countries Peru, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. This will be accomplished by advocating for more transparent public budgets and overall accountability to ensure that governments meet their development commitments related to sexual and reproductive health.
*Footnote: MDG5b refers to a target of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which is to improve maternal health. MDG5b sets a target of achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015; this target will not be met in any of the above countries by 2015, even given the critical importance of reproductive health in development.
